Corpora: Second CFP, EMNLP 2001

[Lillian Lee]

*** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EMNLP 2001 ***

(includes submission instructions; note notification deadline)

2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Sponsored by SIGDAT and the Intelligent Information Systems Institute (IISI).

SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special
interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP,
invites submissions to EMNLP 2001.  The conference will be held at
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA on June 3 and 4,
immediately preceding the meeting of the North American Chapter of the
ACL (NAACL).

We are interested in papers from academia, government, and industry on
all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned
fields, including but not limited to:

* information extraction
* information retrieval
* language and dialog modeling
* lexical acquisition
* machine translation
* multilingual technologies
* question answering
* statistical parsing
* summarization
* tagging
* term and named-entity extraction
* word sense disambiguation
* word, term, and text segmentation

Also, to encourage reflection on the current state of the art in
corpus-based methods, the conference will have the following theme:

  "What Works and What Doesn't:  Successes and Challenges"

Successes --- We solicit papers showing the success of empirical
methods in and across application settings.  Examples include
improvements in information retrieval performance due to employing
language modeling techniques; effective use of statistical word
segmentation algorithms in machine translation systems; and increased
speech recognition accuracy through the incorporation of statistical
parsing.

Challenges --- It is clear that empirical and corpus-based methods
have enjoyed many successes over the past years; but in looking to
future accomplishments, the community needs to be aware of the
limitations of various techniques and paradigms.  We welcome papers
that carefully expose and study such limitations. Examples include the
identification and exploration of: classes of domains or problems in
which popular techniques perform poorly; significant gaps between
human and machine performance on tasks where statistical approaches
have made great progress; and important practical situations where
common assumptions fail to hold.  *** We emphasize that we seek
submissions that thoughtfully document fundamental limitations, rather
than simply report on unsuccessful experiments. *** It is desired that
such papers contain thorough examination, via careful experimentation,
of the critical factors contributing to the "negative" result.


SUBMISSIONS:

Requirements: Submissions must describe original, completed,
unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when
appropriate.  Papers being submitted to other meetings must provide
this information (see submission format); in the event of multiple
acceptances, authors are requested to immediately notify the EMNLP
program chair (llee at cs.cornell.edu) and choose which meeting to
present and publish the work at as soon as possible --- EMNLP cannot
accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been)
published elsewhere.

Submission Format: Submissions must be hardcopy, and consist of full
papers of not more than 3200 words (exclusive of references).  Authors
are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style files or MSWord
equivalents available from the EMNLP website -- these formats will
ease the transition to the proceedings version.

Reviewing will be blind. No information identifying the authors should
be in the paper: this includes not only the authors' names and
affilations, but also self-references that reveal authors' identities;
for example, "We have previously shown (Smith 1999)" should be changed
to "Smith (1999) has previously shown".  A separate identification
page is required: see below.

Submission procedure: First, an electronic notice of intent to submit
is required.  Please email llee at cs.cornell.edu
(subject line EMNLP 2001 ITS) by March 9 with the following information:

    Paper title
    Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses
    Contact author
    A short list of keywords
    A short (no more than 5 lines) summary of the contents
    Whether or not the paper is under consideration for other conferences
      (please specify)							

Then, six hardcopies of the paper together with a single separate
page listing *all* the information from the notice of intent to
submit (i.e., title, authors, contact author, keywords, summary, and
multiple-submission information -- a printout of the notice of intent
to submit suffices) must be received by March 13 at the
following address:

    EMNLP 2001 Submissions
    Lillian Lee
    4130 Upson Hall
    Cornell University
    Ithaca, NY 14853-7501
    USA		

The EMNLP committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mail
problems.  Papers will not be accepted electronically, and submissions
that do not conform to the guidelines above are subject to rejection
without review.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Notification deadline:     March 9, 2001
Submission deadline:       March 13, 2001
Acceptance notification:   April 13, 2001
Camera-ready copy due:     May 3, 2001
Conference:                June 3-4, 2001

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:

Lillian Lee (chair), Cornell University, llee at cs.cornell.edu
Donna Harman (co-chair), NIST, donna.harman at nist.gov

CONFERENCE URL:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html